CARRIE UNDERWOOD won two trophies at last night’s “CMT Music Awards”. “Love Wins” won Female Video of the Year, and “Cry Pretty” took home the big award, Video of the Year. Nobody’s won more CMTs than Carrie’s 20. ASHLEY MCBRYDE won Breakthrough Video of the Year for “Girl Goin’ Nowhere”. The show started when THOMAS RHETT joined hosts LITTLE BIG TOWN and TROMBONE SHORTY for “Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time”. Then it went outside for KANE BROWN performing “Short Skirt Weather”. TOBY KEITH sang “That’s Country, Bro”. KELSEA BALLERINI performed “Miss Me More”. SHERYL CROW joined MAREN MORRIS with “Prove You Wrong”, which is the song they recorded with Stevie Nicks. It’ll be on Sheryl’s upcoming final album. Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, Deana Carter, Lauren Alaina, RaeLynn, and Carly Pearce all on stage singing “Delta Dawn”. ZAC BROWN’s acceptance speech after winning Group Video of the Year for “Someone I Used to Know” — “For you young artists, have courage to stand up against the machine, be yourself, work hard and one day you can stand up here and tell all the haters to —– off.” CARRIE UNDERWOOD performed “Southbound”. LUKE COMBS performed “Beer Never Broke My Heart” to close the show.
Here’s your complete list of last night’s winners . . .
- Video of the Year: “Cry Pretty”, Carrie Underwood
- Male Video of the Year: “Lose It”, Kane Brown
- Female Video of the Year: “Love Wins”, Carrie Underwood
- Group Video of the Year: “Someone I Used to Know”, Zac Brown Band
- Duo Video of the Year: “Speechless”, Dan + Shay
- CMT Performance of the Year: “Beautiful Crazy”, Luke Combs and Leon Bridges . . . from “CMT Crossroads”.
- Collaborative Video of the Year: “Coming Home”, Keith Urban featuring Julia Michaels
- Breakthrough Video of the Year: “Girl Goin’ Nowhere”, Ashley McBryde
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